ANAHEIM, CA – Late Tuesday evening investigators from the Anaheim Police Department Crime Task Force arrested a 27 year old female suspect for grand theft related to an Airbnb rental theft. Investigators arrested Julianne Marie Lavin, a 27 year old transient, without incident as she entered her vehicle in a Santa Ana neighborhood. Lavin was booked at the Anaheim Detention Facility for Grand Theft and Embezzlement with bail set at $20,000. Continue reading→

ANAHEIM, CA – Police Chief Raul Quezada announced today that the Anaheim Police Department has
been awarded a $99,613 grant from the California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to battle alcohol-related
crime.

“This grant will provide my Department and the City greater ability to prevent youth from obtaining alcohol
and to shut down problem ABC locations that repeatedly violate the law and have contributed to an increase
in crime,” Chief Quezada said. Continue reading→

Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, a convicted sex offender, was ordered Monday to stand trial on double murder charges in the deaths of two 6-year-old boys in 1981 and 1986, according to the O.C. Register.

Rasmuson, 54, was finally arrested in March 2015 in Sandpoint, Idaho, after his DNA was allegedly linked to the July 2, 1981, killing of a boy Police have said was Jeffrey David Vargo. Continue reading→

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (August 5, 2016) – StandUp for Kids, Orange County won the 2016-17 Carmax Grant of $20,000 to use for homeless youth and will implement The Young Entrepreneurs Academy – or YEA! – Program to both their Huntington Beach and Anaheim centers in the fall.

“We’re very excited to implement the YEA! Program for our homeless youth,” said Justine Palmore, executive director of StandUp for Kids, Orange County. “Our homeless, disadvantaged youth will have the opportunity to learn new skills, become young entrepreneurs and hopefully win the grant.” Continue reading→

ANAHEIM, Calif. – StandUp for Kids Orange County, the local chapter of a nation-wide youth homelessness organization, has announced the launch of a new STEM program at its Anaheim Outreach Center. The STEM program is the first of its kind at the Orange County chapter and will begin September 20, 2016.

The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) program is a fifteen week course that will utilize curriculum from Rokenbok Education. Students will have access to skilled tutoring, the opportunity to create a grade-level science project, and online resources to develop science skills and career plans. Continue reading→

FULLERTON, Calif. – A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) deputy was convicted today of threatening and assaulting a woman including lighting her hair on fire. Alejandro Flores, 34, Buena Park, pleaded guilty today, Aug. 15, 2016, to three felony counts of domestic battery with corporal injury, two felony counts of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, one felony count of aggravated assault, one felony count of criminal threats, one felony count of dissuading a witness by force or threat, and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace or violence, with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a firearm. Flores was sentenced to one year in county jail, five years of formal probation, eight hours of community service, mandatory completion of a domestic violence batterers’ treatment program, and was ordered to pay restitution. The People objected to the court’s offer and stated they believed Flores should be in state prison. Continue reading→

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man previously dubbed the Assistant Coach Bandit by the FBI is facing additional charges for defrauding over $40,000 from six victims through a loan modification scam. James Allen Ramsdell, 51, Huntington Beach, was additionally charged today with five felony counts of grand theft and one felony count of grand theft from an elder. He was previously charged with one felony count of grand theft, one felony count of foreclosure consultant unlawful advance fee, one misdemeanor count of loan modification unlawful advance, and a sentencing enhancement for a prior prison conviction of a serious and violent felony for bank robbery in 2009 in the San Diego federal court for bank robbery. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 14 years and eight months in state prison. He is out of custody on $120,000 bail and was arraigned today on the additional charges. He is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing Sept. 15, 2016, at 8:30 a.m. in Department C-55, Central Justice Center, Santa Ana. Continue reading→